Re: I thought I heard you calling me :)

I certainly didn't cherry pick, I was attempting to give you specific examples that throw your absolutes into disarray...I can give you many examples in the same vain but let me answer you comments first.

you said "Should they pay your health insurance? Car insurance? Homeowners insurance? Flood insurance? Life insurance?"

In the instance you gave I would say that yes they should pay your health insurance as your health is essential to your employment as well as to ensure your safety on the job. The history of how companies began to pay health insurance is due to their recognition of connection between the place of employment and your health. In most instances the other things you have asked about would not be paid for but in the instance of a maid you can just be said to be buying a service and not employing a worker and thus you would not have to pay insurance. If I were to have a maid I would certainly try to do that because if I'm not running a business, how can I be an employer? She is running the business and I am just a customer.

I know that you have the view that businesses should be able to do whatever they want and no one should be able to tell them otherwise because they are privately owned but here is the problem with that…There are people who think that they should be able to discriminate based on race, gender, age or sexual orientation because their business is privately owned but by regulating these sort of things we have been able to make job hiring much more equitable and based more on ability then it was in years passed. If they didn’t have to, many businesses wouldn’t want to give women maternity leave and would say that if they don’t like it they should just go elsewhere…do you think that is the society we want to live in? We have a clear precedent in our country of putting limits on businesses and not allowing them to treat their workers in any way they choose and having them provide health insurance on a mandatory basis. Many businesses have already begun giving health insurance to gay and lesbian couples even before the right of marriage has been won by them and I applaud the companies for that. If businesses are not compelled to provide health insurance then they will conspire with their competitors to make a deal where none of them will offer insurance. So then the workers will have no other place to go since no one will offer insurance. You see businesses have the ability to manipulate the market so it doesn’t work out the problems that arise.

What jobs do you think should pay health insurance and which shouldn't? Do you think coal miners should have the mining company pay for their health insurance?
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